Billy G Malone

Dr. Bill G. Malone died after a brief illness on November 5, 2014. Dr. Malone was born September 23, 1922 in Muskogee, Oklahoma to Charles A. Malone and Gladys Cooper Malone. After graduating from high school in Muskogee, he attended Oklahoma University where he met the love of his life, Beatrice Hayden Malone, with whom he shared a happy marriage of over seventy-one years until Mrs. Malone passed on to glory May 5, 2014.

Dr. Malone was very much a renaissance man. He served valiantly in World War II as a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force making nightly bombing raids from England into Germany where he survived far more than the originally requested number of missions. What stories he would relate of those years! After his initial war time service, Dr. Malone went on to own and operate a variety of businesses some of which included driving his own car carrying semi-tractor trailer on regular deliveries over the old roads in the Rocky Mountains in the 1950’s. He was asked to return to the Air Force to earn a triple rating as a bombardier, navigator and radar observer and then was promoted to the rank of Captain. Later, while continuing to participate in the Air Force Reserves, he designed and built jet engine test cells; worked in the aerospace industry; owned and operated commercial fishing boats in Florida and abroad and ultimately finished his degrees earning a Doctor of Ministry at Luther Rice Seminary. He opened a Christian Counseling office focusing on helping with marriage problems. Dr. Malone loved to teach and often did at All Souls Anglican Church where he was a faithful parishioner for much of his adult life.

Above all, Dr. Malone was a devout Christian who loved his Lord, his church, and family. There was never a man more devoted to his wife and sons. Dr. Malone was a good, ethical, honest and kind man who will be greatly missed. Dr. Malone was predeceased by his parents, wife, and his brother, Charles. Left to cherish the memories of this remarkable man are his sons, Hayden and Barry and their wives; his brother, Ray; five grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren as well as many friends and his church family.

Funeral services will be held at twelve thirty o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday, November 22, 2014 at The Oaklawn Chapel. Family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Interment will follow in Oaklawn Cemetery with Military Honors. HARDAGE-GIDDENS, THE OAKLAWN CHAPEL, 4801 San Jose Boulevard is serving the family.